Aug
11

What to Do About This Blog

I have been trying to decide what to do with this blog.  When I originally created this blog, I wanted to talk about things that interest me.  I wanted to tell the world about my faith in God and the payment his son has done for me with his death on the cross.  I wanted to tell about photography, technology, and ham radio.  These are just a few of my hobbies.  What it has become is a place for me to vent when I am having a bad day.  Instead of staying in God’s word and being transformed by the renewing of my mind as spoken in Romans 12:2.  Instead of being a light in the world as I originally had intended, I have used this blog to gripe, moan, and complain about everything from politics to neighbors.

Anytime a person only posts when they have had a bad day, it gives the impression to the rest of the world that maybe this person is a grouch and hardly worth listening to.  Secondly when I use this medium to complain and post when I am in a bad mood, then I am motivated by anger.  Being motivated by anger makes it sound as though I am a raving lunatic.  I have read a few of my posts later when I was more calm and found myself laughing.  It is hard to be rational when you are angry.  I apologize if any of my posts have been offensive.

I have always used writing as therapy and a way to vent.  When I am stressed out, I often write my feelings down like I am talking to the person.  It always makes me feel better.  Writing has always been my favorite way to communicate because I can say what I want without interruption.  I have been doing this blog for more than four years though my posts only go back as far as late 2006 because I had a system crash and lost my posts.

Surprising this blog does get a lot a views though not many people post.  I have a program that summarized the traffic to this site including referring URL’s, referring domains, search terms, and all sorts or statistical data.  Most of my views seem to come from Google.com searches while a sizable number come from Flickr.com. At this point I am undecided on the direction I will take with this blog.  At times I want to wipe it clean and start over.  At other times, I just want to make it a static page with links.  The one thing that I do not want is to be offensive with my ranting when I am in a grouchy mood.

I have some very strong opinions about things and like to post about them when stories are over covered in the media.  At the same time, I find myself becoming a little over zealous and too staunch to a point where they can sound offensive.

I do not want to be so politically correct that I cannot speak my mind either.  I do not have time to make any drastic changes at the moment but I will think about my options and make up my mind soon.

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Posted by Paul Personal, blogging, opinion Subscribe to RSS feed
  • I rarely post comments on anyone's blog, but figured I would say hello :-)

    I totally understand your thoughts on where to go next and what topics to blog in the future. I've got several blogs and often end up not writing anything on any of them when I'm trying not to share too much or too little or to the wrong people, etc.

    Every once in a while a post will come in from you with a lot of opinion behind it... once in a while there is that urge to drop the RSS feed, but it is usually quickly followed up by a few excellent posts that I agree with 100%! Such is life on the internet!

    So I'd encourage you to use your blog however you decide... people read if they want, they leave if they don't. But at the same time, we do have so much to be thankful for in our lives and it can be really good to share and focus on those items publicly as well.

    As another christian, ham radio operating, family loving, politically conservative, twittering geek on the internet, almost all of your past topics have been at least somewhat interesting, and thus I'm still subscribed and leaving comments ;-)

    I'd encourage you to not delete your entire history of blog articles, if there are posts here and there that you'd really rather have disappear, feel free to mark them private and they will eventually (for the most part) drop out of the web caches and archives. But from the rest, they may be helpful to some, will continue drawing traffic from searches, and remain as a history you can refer back to if ever needed.
  • Thanks Dan,

    Sometimes it is not good to just post when you are having a bad day. There are many things that are interesting to talk about and not necessarily a gripe board. Anyway, I am staying with it for a while.

    Paul
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